Denison University

Morrow House Living-Learning Community



Address: Box M
City: Granville
State: OH
Zip or Postal Code: 43023
Country: USA
Program Director (or best person to contact): Donald G. Schilling
Email: schilling@denison.edu
Phone: 740-587-6668
Fax: 740-587-6319
Web Address:

Brief Program Summary
A new initiative featuring collaboration between the First -Year Program and the Office of Residential Life, Morrow House will offer space for thirty-eight first-year students to live in a residence focused on service learning. Students who choose to live in Morrow House because of their commitment to service will be required to take one of two first-year seminars, each of which will engage in service learning as one of the course requirements. Course instructors will also serve as the academic advisors to many of these students. Morrow House promises significant benefits: building a student community around shared interests and a common academic experience, close faculty-student interaction both in the classroom and the residence hall, co-curricular programming in the residence hall that supports the academic goals of the first-year seminars, and at the staff level collaborative relationships that help to bridge the gap between Student and Academic Affairs.

Sources of funding
University budget-First-Year Programs & Residential Life

Program Reports To:


Are students charged an additional fee: No

The number of persons in each of the following categories are teaching academic credit bearing courses
Fulltime Tenured Faculty: 0
Fulltime Probationary Faculty: 0
Fulltime Instructors: 0
Fulltime Retired Faculty: 0
Fulltime Adjunct Faculty: 0
Fulltime Graduate Students: 0
Fulltime Residence Hall Staff: 2

Parttime Tenured Faculty: 2
Parttime Probationary Faculty: 0
Parttime Instructors: 1
Parttime Retired Faculty: 0
Parttime Adjunct Faculty: 0
Parttime Graduate Students: 0
Parttime Residence Hall Staff: 0

Academic staff involved in the program that weren't included as faculty above
(Academic staff are personnel who are involved in providing academic services to students such as advising.)
Fulltime Academic Staff: 0
Parttime Academic Staff: 0

Non-academic staff involved in the program
(Non-academic staff are personnel who are involved in providing services that do not directly involve academics such as residence hall staff or staff who organize social activities that are not tied to academics.)
Fulltime Non-Academic Staff: 0
Parttime Non-Academic Staff: 1
Number of faculty offices in the residence hall: 1
The approximate percentage of students in each grade level
First Year: 100
Second Year: 0
Third Year: 0
Fourth Year and above: 0
Graduate Students: 0

Total Number of Students: 38

Year the Program Began:1999

Academic Courses Offered In The Community
Homelessness and Theology--4 credits Virtue and Violence--4 credits (2 sections) Each of these courses is offerd in our First-Year Seminar Program and meets a General Education requirement. Students in the program must take one of these courses.

Other Academic Offerings
Other courses will be taken in our general course offering.

Classrooms in hall


Summary of Facilities and Facilities Budget

Computer Resources in the Residence Hall
All rooms are wired into the university network

The Role of Community Partnerships
Details still being worked out.

The Role of Leadership Development
Details still being worked out.

The Role of Research
No role

Summary of Assessment Activities
Details still being worked out.

Summary of Extracurricular Activities Formally Associated with the Program
A speakers program; each student will have a service project.

The Role of Interdisciplinary Studies
The First-Year Seminar: Virtue and Violence is an inter- disciplinary course.

How Diversity Issues are Addressed in the Program and in Courses
A minority or women's studies course is required as part of our General Education program. Programing in residential units on diversity issues.

How Diversity Issues are Addressed Among Faculty and Students
Speakers, workshops.

Student Demographics
Student participants in the program have not yet been selected.

Faculty Rewards for Participation in the Program
Release Time:
Salary Supplement:
Travel Funds:
Other:

Description of Other Rewards


Disciplines Represented by the Faculty
Religion, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology

Willing to Serve as a Consultant:
No

Greatest Challenges for this Learning Community:
Coordinating the work of faculty, residential life staff, and student residents.

Suggested Bibliography
Have found Jodi Levine, ed., _Learning Communities: New Structures, New Partnerships for Learning (U of South Carolina: National Resources Center for 1st Year Experience, 1999, Monograph Series, #26) to be helpful.